Indeed you do have her to thank. :) Pleased to meet you!
My route in is rather circuitous and started via the Alan Bennett play The Habit of Art (which is really not one of his best works, but which left me hungry for more actual information about Britten and Auden). Coming from that angle, I read Britten's Children and got hooked on Auden's poetry.
With Britten's operas, I'm still struggling a lot with how much I dislike Pears's voice. I've definitely fallen for Turn of the Screw, but I haven't been able to talk myself into enjoying the music in Death in Venice just yet...
I haven't read any Isherwood at all yet--he just ::keeps coming up:: in the biographies of everyone else I'm following in the period, and it's clearly time for me to give in and become obsessed with him too. Thanks for the recommendations!
Britten's obliviousness makes me so happy. I'm just glad Pears was there to help him past it. I sort of suspect that he would have happily gotten all his kicks from playing tennis with everyone for the rest of his life otherwise. Poor everyone else though, for not getting there first.
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My route in is rather circuitous and started via the Alan Bennett play The Habit of Art (which is really not one of his best works, but which left me hungry for more actual information about Britten and Auden). Coming from that angle, I read Britten's Children and got hooked on Auden's poetry.
With Britten's operas, I'm still struggling a lot with how much I dislike Pears's voice. I've definitely fallen for Turn of the Screw, but I haven't been able to talk myself into enjoying the music in Death in Venice just yet...
I haven't read any Isherwood at all yet--he just ::keeps coming up:: in the biographies of everyone else I'm following in the period, and it's clearly time for me to give in and become obsessed with him too. Thanks for the recommendations!
Britten's obliviousness makes me so happy. I'm just glad Pears was there to help him past it. I sort of suspect that he would have happily gotten all his kicks from playing tennis with everyone for the rest of his life otherwise. Poor everyone else though, for not getting there first.